Following news that former Secretary of State may have violated State Department rules by using a personal account, Twitter exploded with memes and trolling tweets. Even Jeb Bush took the opportunity to lob a grenade in Hilldawg’s direction.

We gathered some of the best trolls and memes from last evening. Enjoy!

But John Boehner‘s office took hyperbole to a whole new level this morning, when Michael Steel, Boehner’s press secretary, told the Times in a statement:

“If Taylor Swift and Katy Perry did a joint concert at Madison Square Garden wearing white-and-gold and black-and-blue dresses, accompanied by dancing sharks and llamas, that’s the only way you’d have a tougher ticket.”

Sign me up for tickets to that…

[h/t Business Insider]
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http://www.adweek.com/fishbowldc/?p=141741Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:56:32 +0000CNN Adds ABC’s Jeff Zeleny as Senior Washington CorrespondentABC News senior Washington correspondent, Jeff Zeleny, has joined CNN where he will serve in the same role for his new employer. The move comes two years after joining ABC News from New York Times in March 2013.

Zeleny joins a growing list of ABC News staffers that have jumped ship to CNN, including Jake Tapper, Bill Weir, Jim Sciutto and John Berman, and executives Amy Entelis and Andrew Morse.

Prior to joining Defense One, Peniston had been with Defense News for over a decade, and will now manage their editorial staff and oversee the direction of the publication’s news coverage and reporting assignments.

Below is Defense One’s press release announcing Peniston’s hiring:

“Executive Editor Kevin Baron announced today that veteran defense and national security journalist Bradley Peniston will join Defense One as deputy editor later this month. The addition comes during a time of growth for the publication.

“I’m thrilled Brad has decided to join Defense One,\" said Baron. \"His expertise and knowledge of issues from foreign policy to military life to the defense industry is invaluable. I can’t wait to see his deep experience put to work managing our daily news flow and helping t0 decipher and drive analysis on the biggest issues facing the national security, defense and military communities.”

Peniston comes to Defense One after more than a decade at Defense News, where as managing editor for product development, he helped oversee the relaunch of its website, mobile apps, and custom print publications. In 2011, while at Defense News, Peniston was named editor of Armed Forces Journal, America’s oldest military-themed publication, founded in 1863. During his tenure, AFJ was named one of the nation’s top-10 small magazines by the American Society of Business Press Editors; it also published an essay that won its author the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling. Before that, in 2000, he helped launch Military.com.

As deputy editor of Defense One, Peniston will manage editorial staff and oversee the direction of the publication’s news coverage and reporting assignments. He will work closely with Baron to guide commentary and analysis on the site, and to develop and execute on Defense One’s editorial calendar.

The addition of Peniston to the Defense One editorial team rounds out six months of powerful new hires for the publication, including Senior Military Reporter Gordon Lubold and Global Business Reporter Marcus Weisgerber, both of whom joined last fall.

Peniston joins Defense One at a time of readership growth as well. In February, Defense One enjoyed a 40% increase in unique visits over the previous record traffic month of November 2014. Last month’s growth was driven in part by Technology Editor Patrick Tucker’s report on the Marine Corps’ development of \"war balls,\" or amphibious GuardBot drones, now the site’s top-viewed story of all time.”

Today in Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will give what has become a widely publicized and controversial speech to Congress.

Although he will be addressing what is supposed to be a joint session, many top Democrats have chosen not to attend — including the most recent to announce their absence, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Al Franken.

The Atlantic‘s James Fallows attempts to explain why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu is so determined to give his speech today to Congress.

Fishbowl Fun Fact

Canada has more lakes than all other countries combined.

Front Page of the Day

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http://www.adweek.com/fishbowldc/?p=141688Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:15:35 +0000CBS’s ‘Good Wife’ Follows Moody InvestigationLast night’s episode of CBS’s “The Good Wife\" began with a story straight out of one of Chris Moody’s investigative stories published in November. Definitely an example of Hollywood swimming in the DC fishbowl!In the show, Alicia Florrick’s (played by Julianna Margulies) fictional campaign used anonymous Twitter accounts to secretly share polling information with a PAC. That story line was based on Moody’s expose of Republicans doing just that during the 2014 Midterm Election. The \"Good Wife\" script was so close to reality that they even used West Wing character names as the Twitter handles (which the GOP did in real life!).

The season 3 release of Netflix’s “House of Cards” on Friday inconveniently coincided with the final day CPAC for many loyal fans, including one very tired Bloomberg Politics producer.

So, Bloomberg’s Matt Negrin figured he’d kill two birds with one stone — interviewing a few politicos at CPAC, while simultaneously binge watching the new season. Hilarity ensued.

“Who is the most qualified Republican to take on President Underwood in 2016?” Negrin asked former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina.

“You mean Hilary Clinton..?” Fiorin said with a grin.

“Sorry.. I’ve just been so blahhh,” replied a wired Negrin. “I’m crazy about ‘House of Cards,’ I’ve been up since 3 AM.”

He also caught up with chairman of the American Conservative Union, Matt Schlapp. Not seriously, but somewhat seriously asking him, “why would you do this on the day this comes out? Six thousand rooms and you don’t have any viewing parties set up or anything for people who want to watch ‘House of Cards’?”

Several conservative blogs picked up a “report” from the Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Jarida, yesterday that made the bold, but unlikely, claim that President Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli planes if they were to attack Iranian nuclear facilities in 2014.

Among them was FoxNews.com, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, and several others. The Al-Jarida report, which almost certainly has no basis in reality, cites an “unnamed Israeli minister who has good ties with the US administration” as well as several “‘well-placed’ sources.”

As Mediaite’s Dan Abrams aptly puts it, “the source of the report so absurd that one might think it emanated from the parody site The Onion.”

The report was conveniently published only hours before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s flight to Washington, DC, where he will give a highly publicized speech to Congress tomorrow.